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We've been around on this before. Without wishing to rehash at the moment, fwiw, I still hold what I wrote in "Nazarenes" in Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992). I consider the Jesus as Nazirite interpretation unlikely.

"...saw him eating." Physical?

Most Qumran scrolls do not have titles. But an excellent article about one of the exceptions proposes (I'd say, persuasively) that a title was changed. 4Q249 Midrash Moshe: A New Reading and Some Implications Authors: Jonathan Ben-Dov and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra Source: Dead Sea Discoveries, Volume 21...

Simon was the most popular Jewish male name at the time, p. 56 of
Lexicon of Jewish names in late antiquity /
1 Palestine 330 BCE - 200 CE.
Tal Ilan
2002
English Book, 484 Seiten.
Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ; ISBN: 3161476468 9783161476464

Celsus accused Christians of avoiding military service. But some soldiers were also attracted to Christianity, as suggested by the finds at Legio near Megiddo (at whatever later date).

Maybe, maybe relevant here is that a Non Disclosure Agreement (that is, its text) of the Green Scholars Initiative is reported in Ch. 2 of Bible Nation (2017) by Moss and Baden, though mentioned in a context not specifically linked with the Mark ms.

In case you haven't read it already, Mark Goodacre has already commented Alan Garrow's work:
http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/garrows-flaw.html
and
http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/fu ... arrow.html

The Egypt Exploration Society has commented further on the Mark ms:
https://www.ees.ac.uk/news/poxy-lxxxiii-5345

A new (2018) book, Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography, by Maren R. Niehoff, proposes that he had a change in philosophy after his mission to Rome. A review is here: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018-05-36.html I have just received a copy of the book. Though I have not always agreed with...